Low Carbon Accelerator

Type

Accelerator/Incubator

Status

Active

Location

Kelvin Grove, Australia

Total investments

7

Average round size

7M

Portfolio companies

6

Rounds per year

0.47

Lead investments

3

Follow on index

0.14

Exits

4

Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Areas of investment
SoftwareArtificial IntelligenceManufacturingDeveloper ToolsEnergyRenewable EnergyChemicalOil and GasLightingEnergy Management

Summary

Low Carbon Accelerator is the famous VC, which was founded in 2006. The main office of represented VC is situated in the London. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in United Kingdom.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Low Carbon Accelerator, startups are often financed by Volvo Group Venture Capital, Emerald Technology Ventures, Braemar Energy Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Volvo Group Venture Capital, Emerald Technology Ventures, BDC Venture Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Volvo Group Venture Capital, Ombu Group, Emerald Technology Ventures.

Opposing the other organizations, this Low Carbon Accelerator works on 14 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2013. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 37 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The high activity for fund was in 2009. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually.

We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Wind Energy, Developer Tools. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Open Energi, Lumenergi, Vaprema.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
Climate tech
Geo focus
Australia, Queensland
Check size
10K — 80K

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
7
Lead investments
3
Exits
4
Rounds per year
0.47
Follow on index
0.14
Investments by industry
  • Renewable Energy (3)
  • Energy (3)
  • Oil and Gas (3)
  • Manufacturing (2)
  • Developer Tools (2)
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Investments by region
  • Canada (2)
  • United States (3)
  • Ireland (1)
  • United Kingdom (1)
Peak activity year
2009

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
22
Group Appearance index
0.43
Avg. company exit year
9

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Sterling Planet 28 Feb 2007 Energy, Renewable Energy, Oil and Gas Early Stage Venture United States, Georgia, Norcross

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